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MEN’S HUNDRED, 2025 With 3 runs to win off 2 balls, Reece Topley hit a four to cap off the dramatic finish © Getty Reece Topley, the No. 11 batter, cracked a boundary off the penultimate ball of the run chase to help Southern Brave secure a stunning one-wicket win in their opening encounter of The Hundred, on Thursday. Brave overhauled Manchester Originals’ total of 131 for 4 with one ball to spare. After Sonny Baker had cleaned up James Vince early in the chase, Leus du Plooy and Jason Roy put on a steady 32-run stand for the second…
The 19-year-old opener is the only Test incumbent picked for the Australia A tour of India next month Sam Konstas’s road to retaining his Test spot for this summer’s Ashes will take a detour after the teenage opener was picked in an Australia A squad for a tour of India next month. Konstas was the only incumbent Test player picked to face India A in a pair of first-class matches in Lucknow where Australia’s focus is squarely on preparing emerging players for the next Border-Gavaskar Trophy tour in early 2027.Cooper Connolly, Todd Murphy and Nathan McSweeney are the only other…
MONTREAL: Four-times Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka reached the semi-finals of the Canadian Open for the first time after beating Ukrainian Elina Svitolina 6-2, 6-2 in the quarters on Tuesday, while Ben Shelton eliminated Alex de Minaur on the men’s side. It marks Osaka’s first WTA 1000 semi-final since Miami in 2022, as the Japanese former world number one needed just over an hour to secure victory over the 10th seeded Svitolina. Osaka capitalised on Svitolina’s unforced errors to break twice and move within a game of taking the first set. Despite dropping serve while Svitolina threatened to shift the…
RIYADH: Holders Al Hilal will be banned from the 2026-27 Saudi Super Cup if they qualify after withdrawing from this season’s four-team competition, the Saudi Arabia Football Federation’s (SAFF) Disciplinary and Ethics Committee said on Tuesday. The decision came after Al Hilal pulled out of the Super Cup, scheduled to be played from Aug 19-23 in Hong Kong, citing player fatigue following their Club World Cup campaign. They lost 2-1 to Fluminense in the quarter-finals on July 4. “Al Hilal refused to participate in the Saudi Super Cup for the 2025-2026 season after the official schedule for the competition was…
ISLAMABAD: For the first time, Pakistan will be represented by its senior squash players at the 12th edition of the World Games to be held in Chengdu, China, with Nasir Iqbal and Noor Zaman set to compete in the championship. The duo, led by head coach Fahim Gul, marks Pakistan’s inaugural participation in the squash event at these global championships. The Pakistan Squash Federation (PSF) highlighted the significance of the World Games, describing it as a major international gathering of top athletes. “It is an honour to have Pakistan’s squash team participating in this mega event,” stated a PSF press…
WASHINGTON: Donald Trump on Tuesday established a task force that he will lead on the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, a Democrat-run city that has frequently clashed with the Republican US president. The group will engage the federal government to “ensure the Games are safe, seamless and historically successful,” potentially offering Trump and his allies greater influence over the sporting event. Trump will serve as chairman and Vice President JD Vance will be vice-chair of the task force, which will encompass several other leaders in his administration. Other members include Attorney General Pam Bondi, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem…
PORT OF SPAIN: West Indies have recalled all-rounder Romario Shepherd for the three-match One-day International series against Pakistan with coach Darren Sammy hoping that positive results will strengthen their case for an automatic spot at next year’s ODI World Cup. The squad retained the core of players who secured recent home series victories over England and Bangladesh at the end of 2024, as well as the tour of the United Kingdom earlier this year. The West Indies are aiming for a fourth consecutive home ODI series win Shepherd returning to the side — led by Shai Hope — for the…
Aussie great Beth Mooney endured a tough match with the bat as Manchester Originals started poorly in the Hundred Beth Mooney, one of three Australian captains in the women’s Hundred, has endured a miserable launch to her reign at Manchester Originals, failing with the bat before overseeing a comprehensive six-wicket defeat. At the Originals’ Old Trafford base on Wednesday, the 31-year-old Perth Scorchers wicketkeeper-batter lost the toss against the Southern Brave – and things went quickly downhill after her side were put in to bat. Opening the batting as ever, Mooney, who’s taken over the captaincy from English international teammate…
Reece Topley and Craig Overton of Southern Brave celebrates their teams victory©ECB Images In a thrilling finish at The Hundred 2025, Reece Topley struck the winning runs as Southern Brave edged past Manchester Originals by one wicket in a dramatic contest. Match Analysis Reece Topley carved his first ball and the penultimate ball of the match for four to take Southern Brave to a dramatic and unexpected one-wicket win against Manchester Originals in The Hundred. Last man Topley walked out with three runs needed from two balls, after Craig Overton (18 off 8) and Tymal Mills (8 off 4) had…
SA TOUR OF AUSTRALIA, 2025 Thirteen innings into his T20I career, Rickelton has just one fifty to show © Getty When Ryan Rickelton imagined Australia, he probably thought of the MCG, kangaroos and Sydney Opera House. He probably didn’t think of Darwin. But that’s where he is on his first trip Down Under. He will also be in Cairns and Mackay for the three T20Is and as many ODIs South Africa will play across 14 days, starting with the first T20I in Darwin on Sunday. Shukri Conrad joked last month that he would have to “go to Google to find…